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Last updated on Friday, August 10, 2018
(BEDFORD) - The Rickenbaugh historic home will be open for visitors to view and ask questions of Forest Service staff on Saturday, August 18, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. (central time).
The home is located at the Indian-Celina Lakes Recreation Area, off SH 37, south of I64, in Perry County. A day use fee is required to enter the recreation area. Built in 1874, it was sold to the Forest Service in 1968. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The Forest Service has rehabilitated the property with the cooperation of many local partners and grants. The building is constructed entirely of local materials: sandstone, oak, poplar and walnut. The Celina Post Office occupied three shelves in one of the large cupboards from 1880 until 1951. Join us to learn more of the unique history of this family and area.
If wilderness or history are of interest to you, forest volunteers are hosting an open house at the Brooks Wilderness Welcome Center on Sunday, August 19, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Eastern time). This is an authentic log cabin at the edge of the Charles C. Deam Wilderness in Monroe County. To reach the cabin and wilderness take SR 446 (south of Bloomington) to Tower Ridge Rd. Built by John S. Brooks in the 1890's, the building is characteristic of log homes built in the eastern United States between 1850 and 1920. The Forest Service acquired the cabin in a land purchase in 1992. The cabin was relocated to a location where it could be more accessible and useful. The entrance to the Charles C. Deam Wilderness was chosen as a perfect place to reconstruct the cabin. Volunteers can answer questions about this area or others on the forest. After touring the cabin, visitors are encouraged to experience the wilderness by hiking one of the many trails, or driving the Tower Ridge Road to the Hickory Ridge Lookout Tower.
Please visit the website, Facebook page or contact the Hoosier National Forest at 812-275-5987 (Bedford) or 812-547-7051 (Tell City) for more information or questions.
The U.S. Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a mission of sustaining the health, diversity and productivity of the nation's forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations. The Forest Service's Eastern Region includes 20 states in the Midwest and East, stretching from Maine, to Maryland, to Missouri, to Minnesota. There are 17 national forests and one national tallgrass prairie in the Eastern Region. For more information, visit www.fs.usda.gov/R9.
The U.S. Forest Service manages 193 million acres of public land, provides assistance to state and private landowners, and maintains the largest forestry research organization in the world. Public lands the Forest Service manages contribute more than $13 billion to the economy each year through visitor spending alone. Those same lands provide 20 percent of the nation's clean water supply, a value estimated at $7.2 billion per year. The agency has either a direct or indirect role in stewardship of about 80 percent of the 850 million forested acres within the U.S., of which 100 million acres are urban forests where most Americans live. For more information, visit www.fs.fed.us.
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